Tag: Service

Albert Mata, the long-time partner of Houston GLBT Community Center president Tim Brookover, passed away on Monday, Feb. 20. Albert was a vivacious man. I could always tell if Albert was at an event. His laughter would echo...

Dallas is awash in places for fitness-conscious gay men to build muscles … and show off a little There’s not a loss for gyms around the Oak Lawn neighborhood. Several fitness centers dot the healthy landscape from Uptown...

The Houston GLBT Community Center’s First Saturday Queer Bingo moves into new digs for this month’s venture. The long running fundraiser starts its residency at Don Julio’s (322 Westheimer) Saturday, January 7,...

Head Figure Head, the new e-book from Glen Maxey, details the author’s arduous and frustrating six-month effort to investigate rumors of Gov. Rick Perry’s gay sex life. Maxey served as executive director of the...

Come together The Dallas arts community is coming together for a spectacular One-Night-Only performance commemorating 30 Years of AIDS. An unprecedented collaboration between some of the finest arts organizations in Dallas, A...

The DMA’s exhibit on the fashions of Jean Paul Gaultier exudes sex appeal with a big dose of flamboyance ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor jones@dallasvoice.com For a man best known for creating the Valkyrie-like...

The Houston GLBT Community Center hosts its Queer Bingo on the first Saturday of each month. Hosting this month’s festivities is self proclaimed living legend, and queen of all Montrose, drag performer Tanya Hyde. Queer...

DADT repeal gives progressive chaplains a chance to counter evangelical clergy in the military DAVID TAFFET | Staff Writer taffet@dallasvoice.com When a soldier recently came to Chaplain Chris Antal, a lieutenant in the Army...

1. The Houston Pride Band presents “Guilty Pleasures,” a concert featuring the favorite guilty pleasures of the Pride Band members, tonight at 7:30 at the Hobby Center. The concert marks the premier of the Pride Band’s new...

So Rich Lopez and I literally took a swing past the Occupy Dallas demonstration in front of the Federal Reserve Bank on Pearl Street during the lunch hour, and below is what we saw. It starts off kinda slow, with us sitting at a...

Wendy Churitch, 55, died suddenly at her home in Irving early Thursday morning, Sept. 29. Churitch was born July 26, 1956, and grew up in Chicago. She moved to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex in 1980. She was known and much...

Paul David Tomko, 41, of Dallas died on Aug. 19. He was born in El Paso and graduated from Irvin High School and University of Texas in El Paso. Tomko had lived in Dallas for the past 10 years. He worked as a senior IBM...

Burleigh John “B.J.” Smith, 62, of Dallas died March 29 from complications due to liver cancer. Born in Shreveport to the late Bernard Cyril and Gwendolyn Smith, B.J.Smith worked 20 years for Cinemark Theaters as a film buyer...

In a cable issued yesterday, the State Department informed its personnel worldwide that it has created a program under which non-citizen same-sex partners of Foreign Service employees can obtain visas to allow them to come to...

Lisa Leff of the Associated Press (AP) wrote an article recently that was carried in newspapers and news websites across the country. The name of the piece was Transgender Vets Want Military Access For Own. Transgender veterans...

Here's a live feed for those interested in watching the memorial service for victims of Saturday's shooting in Tucson. The service is scheduled to start at 8 pm. To open this in a separate window, click HERE. Towleroad...

HRC Governor Jennifer Foster will receive the Metropolitan Business Association’s 2010 Debbie Simmons Community Service Award. The Debbie Simmons Community Service Award is given each year to “an individual who has...

More Discharged Service Member File Suit in Ninth Circuit Today, three highly decorated service members discharged under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) filed suit in federal district court seeking re-instatement and challenging...